ABSTRACT
The present chapter summarizes the main results of a much longer study (Carpelan and Parpola 2001). In that study (where detailed documentation can be found; 15 out of the 37 illustrations are reproduced here), we argue that the Indo-European and Uralic proto-languages were both spoken in archaeological cultures of eastern Europe, and that even the predecessors and some of the successors of these cultures were in contact with each other. The last part of the chapter correlating Indo-European and Uralic linguistic groups with definite archaeological cultures just reproduces the summary of the above-mentioned study. It is preceded by slightly modified and rearranged excerpts from other parts of that same study, focusing on some aspects of the linguistic record, especially issues related to Proto-Aryan.
